Thursday, March 21, 2013

RQ of Nations

Intelligence
Quotient (IQ) of individuals are raising the world over. Recently we had an
expatriate Indian girl in UK
having IQ above that of Albert Einstein. There is hardly anything surprising
about it, because everything has changed since the time of Einstein and today’s
kids need much more talent to succeed. Formal education increases the IQ of
individuals and with the growing accessibility of education the world over, the
positive trend will continue forever. Successive generations with increased
skills and talents cannot be a surprise to anyone. But much more important than
Intelligence is going to be Reliability in future times.

In a society where
everyone is intelligent enough, it will be the perceived reliability of
individuals that would stand out. If someone is not reliable or dependable,
what is his value to the society? As always, progress and development in all
societies (or even nations) are achieved by the efforts of individuals who have
exceptional IQ. But we always forget the fact that these individuals also have
high Reliability Quotient (RQ).It is
then inevitable that RQ will become more important than IQ in the days to come.
Only societies and nations led by leaders having higher RQ will progress and
develop as a whole.

RQ of nations will
also become important in future. It is true that currently the so-called
developed nations (West) have a higher IQ than the developing nations (East).
But how about their RQ? How many of the developed nations like USA, UK,
Germany, Japan, Italy, France etc., are trusted by
the rest of the world? Common people who make up 80% of the world population think
alike and have the same aspirations about the future. Only people with high RQ
can lead them in the way they want. Similarly, only nations with higher RQ can
lead the world to a better tomorrow. It is definitely not Italy, Pakistan,
Iran, Switzerland or North Korea that can take us into a
better future.